“You don't usually associate beautiful works of art with death,” is how the TV news program Inside Edition began its Sept. 2 report on the dangers of fractal burning, also known as Lichtenberg. The ...

The pre-eminent association for wood turners in the United States has issued a ban on a controversial process for using high-voltage electricity to create designs in wood because the technique has ...

Investigators said that two people who were found dead in a fire in Wisconsin were killed when they were electrocuted while doing an art technique known as “fractal wood burning.” Investigators said ...

Wisconsin police said two people died while attempting to use a dangerous wood-burning technique that has become popular on social media. On Thursday, the Marathon County Sheriff's Office announced ...

TROUT RUN – A Lycoming County man was electrocuted while utilizing a process known as fractal wood burning. Coroner Charles E. Kiessling said a relative found Joseph Sechrist, 43, dead about 6 a.m.

TOWN OF DAY – Two people found dead after an April 6 house fire in western Marathon County were electrocuted while making art with a "highly dangerous" method called fractal wood burning, officials ...

In a case that initially perplexed officers, the Wisconsin couple Tanya Rodriguez, 44, and James Carolfi, 52, were found dead in their garage on April 6 after their house was ablaze. In what was ...

Wood burning, which goes by pyrography when it’s feeling fancy, has been an art form for centuries. [PapaJ06] puts a new twist on it by using a microwave oven transformer to generate fractal patterns ...

MARATHON COUNTY, Wis. – Two people found dead after a house fire this month were electrocuted while making art with a "highly dangerous" method called fractal wood burning, local officials said. The ...